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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 1-10, are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention. Regarding Claim 1; “the secondary-side medium in the bypass pipe serves as a heat source” in line 12 is unclear; whereas the bypass pipe or the medium is not asserted to comprise an origin of heat generation, does not assert any heat generating devices thereof, and/or does not assert any features which increases a temperature of i.e. the secondary-side medium etc., and thus it cannot be readily ascertained what function is actually intended by the assertion (NOTE: at best, it appears that atleast a portion of heated secondary-side medium is conveyed by the bypass pipe); Further, in line(s) 13-14, “communicated with an external device through a hot water outlet to recover waste heat, and the medium cooled after waste heat recovery returns to a cold water pipe” is unclear; whereas it appears the secondary-side cooling medium is intended to bypass the liquid cooling system to communicate with an external device. However, it cannot be readily ascertained if the external device is deemed as a portion of the liquid cooling system or otherwise if deemed as a separate external device that is external to the container and the liquid cooling system since i.e.-Fig.’s 2 or 6 only appear to connect the hot water outlet 8 as coupled to the liquid cooling system-1 and the bypass pipe (hot water outlet for recovery of waste heat) i.e. 10 is not shown as connected to any other structure; and it is also noted that, “the medium cooled after waste heat recovery returns to a cold water pipe” is unclear; whereas the limitation appears to suggest without explicit assertion that the medium is cooled by the external device (unknown), and thus it cannot be readily ascertained if the external device is deemed as an alternative energy means and/or cooling structure etc. Going further, “the control unit provides a stable flow rate and pressure for the liquid immersion cooling system, and monitors and maintains operation of the liquid immersion cooling system” is unclear; whereas the control unit is asserted alone without any of the actual processing, mechanical and/or respective sensing structures to detect, process and control flow rate and pressure including i.e. processor(s), sensors, pumps, valves etc. The office hereby notes that the assertion are herein presented as amenable to more than one plausible claim construction which may read on varying inventive structures.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
US 20150181762 A1
Boyd; Christopher L.
Fig.’s 2, 4
US 20140307384 A1
Best; Christiaan Scott et al.
Fig.’s 1A, and 2-4
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/COURTNEY L SMITH/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2835